perfect gas
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of perfect gas
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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The relation between the temperature, pressure, and weight of steam is not quite proportional to the volume, because steam is not a perfect gas, and does not, therefore, strictly follow Mariotte’s law.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
This expansion, nevertheless, causes a fall in the temperature, because the gas in the experiment is not a perfect gas, and, by an ingenious process, the refrigerations produced are made cumulative.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré
The analogy with a perfect gas naturally becomes much greater as the solution becomes more diluted.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré
Contracting, according to Lane's law, its temperature must rise until its density becomes such that it no longer behaves as a perfect gas.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
In an elastic wave propagated from a centre of impulse in an infinitely extended volume of a perfect gas, normal vibrations are alone propagated—as is the case with sound in air.
From The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Luigi Palmieri
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